The primary goal of the Mmofra Trom Education Center is to provide access to education, health care, job skills training, and employment opportunities.
Olan Adjetey, director of the center, first visited Bentley in July 2005 to explore the potential for a partnership. Olan has since been back to Bentley in both 2007 and 2008 for continuing discussions about the Mmofra Trom Education Center’s five-year strategic plan and financial goals, as well as Bentley’s role going forward. Staff also includes two accountants, and a "school full" of adminstrators and teachers.
Projects
- Raising the funds to cover the cost of leveling the regulation-sized football field
- Installing the goal posts for the newly leveled football field
- Supervising construction of the bead kiln and the bead-making facility
- Developing contacts with micro-lending organizations in Accra and Somanya
- Coaching one woman in the village to write a business plan and apply for a micro-loan
- Establishing a vision and business plan for making and marketing beads
- Implementing a soccer clinic and life-skills training project onsite
- Planning a fundraising event at Bentley in November 2007
- Researching micro-finance potential for the surrounding villages
- Creating a website for the Ghana Project
- Researching leadership training programs for children and youth
- Educational Field Trips: Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary, Bame Qatars Kente-Weaving Village
Facilities in Place
- Elementary School (grades pre-K-5)
- Middle School (grades 6-8)
- Regulation-sized Soccer Field
- Girls Dormitory
- Boys Dormitory
- Kitchen and Cafeteria
- Two school buses
- Fresh water well
Income-Producing Activities
that support the center's work with vulnerable children:
- Mango orchard
- Corn fields and vegetable garden
- Tilapia Fish Pond
- Rabbits, Grasscutters, Ducks
- Chicken coop
- Kiln and Bead-Making area
- Kente-Weaving looms and craft area
- Computer Training Center
- The Adjetey Olan Sports Academy
- A medical facility is now under construction
